Did you change SBMM again?
Usually day starts off ok then by evening I see a lot of predator teams. This morning thou I’m back to 3 outta 5 games is mass predator. Did you change something?
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there's no sbmm, they just lied to make some players happy, i've seen lvl 7 players against predators in unranked yesterday
@jumanjaydazedI'd love a more serious answer, although I appreciate the fun one you gave me. ♥
@Nino_Z SBMM= Skill Based Matchmaking. The game tends to put the same level people in the same lobby. So Predators should be only with predators and newbies only with other newbies. Unfortunately this doesn't happen everytime so sometimes it's just as there is no sbmm
- @Cro_Pittt Thank you
Its amazing how much complains SBMM gets, and not many, if any, consider the player base and waiting time. I am assuming that if you connect to e.g. Frankfurt 1 or New York server, you are playing against players connecting to the same server as you (makes sense, right? considering networking, lags, etc).
Next you need to consider how many players are waiting in the lobby and waiting for e.g. a public match to start. If number of "free waiting players" is say 80 or 100 or maybe even 500, that the pool which the SBMM needs to play with. If there are more than 60 players free at the lobby, game usually starts quite fast (say in less then 40 seconds). But in this case you most likely with get level 10-20 players and predators at the same game.
Note! there maybe e.g. 1000-5000 players playing at one server at any given time, but these players are not "free to enter a game, because they are already playing". But are you willing to wait 5-20 minutes for you game to start so you get the same level players to you match? I am sure devs can change this, if enough people want this. "We want longer waiting time so I get easier games!"
If you think 80, 100 or 500 "free players" is low, it may be. I have basically experience from Frankfurt 2 (mainly). Only time I have seen 1000+ players in the lobby, was at the first hours when season 4 started. And these player numbers are from the box where it says "starting server" and "players waiting xxx"... These numbers may mean something totally different what I think those mean...
At peak times, SBMM should work fine, and I think it usually does. But again at these times too, starting a game as soon as possible is more important (IMO) than getting absolutely equal players to the game.
